Download or read book A Handful of Clay in the Potter s Hand written by Ipe Mathai and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever thought that your life was lost without purpose? Do you believe that your present circumstance define your future? As a rebellious young man, Ipe Mathai appeared to be on the path to nowhere. From a small town in rural Kerala, India, he rejected his family and became a homeless runaway. He joined the multitude of people living on the streets of India. What kind of future could there be for him? A great one..... once he obeyed God's call. Through many divinely appointed moments, God took a rebellious, lost, young man, who was searching for an identity, and led him to a place of spiritual and personal fulfillment. A Handful of Clay in the Potter's Hand shows that no failures, no sickness, no fear, no setback, and no person can block the flow of God's blessing... if you are a willing vessel. It is a personal story that shows a new life through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Ipe Mathai is the founder and president of Mathai Outreach Ministries. He is also a successful entrepreneur of several healthcare enterprises. Ipe was born in Pandalam, a town in Kerala, India. He and his wife, Susie, live in Houston, Texas. Their three children and their spouses, serve God in many different ways. Ipe is also a proud grandfather of three grandchildren and the many more to come. He is also an active member of Lakewood Church. Mathai Outreach Ministries is an international grassroots level, nondenominational Christian organization. Evangelism, healing, deliverance, outreach, and church planting are among the main areas of concentration for this ministry. Mathai Outreach supports many missionary organizations, and supports over 100 rural churches throughout India. You can find out more on our website: www.mathaioutreach.org

Download or read book Creole Clay written by Patricia J. Fay and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Artfully combines personal narrative, ethnographic insight, and an artisan’s treatise on material culture and production techniques to bring quotidian Caribbean ceramic wares to life as material expressions of cultural adaptation and markers of the region’s socio-economic history."--Michael R. McDonald, author of Food Culture in Central America "Weaves a complex history that links the Caribbean with Africa, Europe, the Americas, and India and draws together threads from indigenous cultures to the impact of the slave trade, indentured workers, colonial rulers, postcolonial politics, and global tourism."--Moira Vincentelli, author of Women Potters: Transforming Traditions "In the field of indigenous ceramics, cross-regional research is becoming increasingly important for potters, students, and scholars alike. Fay establishes a solid base for both further regional research and global comparative work."--Elizabeth Perrill, author of Zulu Pottery "Provides a historical and social context for the heritage of traditional ceramics in the contemporary Caribbean and at the same time grounds it in the everyday practice of potters."--Mark W. Hauser, author of An Archaeology of Black Markets: Local Ceramics and Economies in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica Beautifully illustrated with richly detailed photographs, this volume traces the living heritage of locally made pottery in the English-speaking Caribbean. Patricia Fay combines her own expertise in making ceramics with two decades of interviews, visits, and participant-observation in the region, providing a perspective that is technically informed and anthropologically rigorous. Through the analysis of ceramic methods, Fay reveals that the traditional skills of local potters in the Caribbean are inherited from diverse points of origin in Africa, Europe, India, and the Americas. At the heart of the book is an in-depth discussion of the women potters of Choiseul, Saint Lucia, whose self-sufficient Creole lifestyle emerged in the nineteenth century following the emancipation of plantation slaves. Using methods inherited from Africa, today’s potters adapt heritage practice for new contexts. In Nevis, Antigua, and Jamaica, related pottery traditions reveal skill sets derived from multiple West and Central African influences, and in the case of Jamaica, launched ceramics as a contemporary art form. In Barbados, colonial wheel and kiln technologies imported from England are evident in the many productive clay studios on the island. In Trinidad, Hindu ritual vessels are a key feature of a ceramic tradition that arrived with indentured labor from India, and in Guyana potters in both village and urban settings preserve indigenous Amerindian culture. Fay emphasizes the integral role relationships between mothers and daughters play in the transmission of skills from generation to generation. Since most pottery produced is intended for domestic use as cooking pots, serving vessels, and for water storage, women have been key to sustaining these traditions. But Fay’s work also shows that these pots have value beyond their everyday usefulness. In the process of forming and firing, the diverse cultural heritage of the Caribbean becomes manifest, exemplifying the continuing encounter between old and new, local and global, and traditional and contemporary. A volume in the series Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Download or read book Clay in the Potter s Hands written by Diana Glyer and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Clay in the Potter s Hands written by Russell A. Bantiles and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Clay in the Potter s Hands WORKBOOK written by Diana Pavlac Glyer and published by Lindale & Associates. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Griot Potters of the Folona written by Barbara E. Frank and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-02 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Griot Potters of the Folona reconstructs the past of a particular group of West African women potters using evidence found in their artistry and techniques. The potters of the Folona region of southeastern Mali serve a diverse clientele and firing thousands of pots weekly during the height of the dry season. Although they identify themselves as Mande, the unique styles and types of objects the Folona women make, and more importantly, the way they form and fire them, are fundamentally different from Mande potters to the north and west. Through a brilliant comparative analysis of pottery production methods across the region, especially how the pots are formed and the way the techniques are taught by mothers to daughters, Barbara Frank concludes that the mothers of the potters of the Folona very likely came from the south and east, marrying Mande griots (West African leatherworkers who are better known as storytellers or musicians), as they made their way south in search of clientele as early as the 14th or 15th century CE. While the women may have nominally given up their mothers' identities through marriage, over the generations the potters preserved their maternal heritage through their technological style, passing this knowledge on to their daughters, and thus transforming the very nature of what it means to be a Mande griot. This is a story of resilience and the continuity of cultural heritage in the hands of women.

Download or read book Clay in the Potter s Hands LEADER s GUIDE written by Bethany Wagner and published by Lindale & Associates. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of people have read Clay in the Potter's Hands and found it an encouraging, challenging, and insightful way to grow in their faith. Using the image of God as a potter, it offers short chapters and vivid illustrations to show how God is at work in our daily lives. This LEADER'S GUIDE was designed to help individuals go deeper into the meaning of each chapter and to equip churches, book clubs, small groups, and others to get the most out of their study of Clay in the Potter's Hands. Filled with practical suggestions, study questions, resources, activities, and tips, this guide will enrich your study and make it easy to introduce others to the riches of this book.

Download or read book Clay in the Potter s Hands WORKBOOK written by Diana Pavlac Glyer and published by Lindale & Associates. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: a workbook to accompany "Clay in the Potter's Hands" by Diana Pavlac Glyer

Download or read book The Traditional Pottery of Guatemala written by Ruben E. Reina and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Portraits of Clay written by Sandra S. Smith and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not long ago, pottery was a lost art in Chihuahua, Mexico. But in the 1970s, near the ruins of Casas Grandes, an art revolution was born. Inspired by ancient pottery fragments from a tradition that had disappeared before the arrival of the first Europeans, a self-taught woodcutter-turned-artist reinvented an entire ceramic technology. Today Casas Grandes pottery, made by hand from local clays and mineral colors by a handful of artists, claims high prices and sets the standard for contemporary pottery. Photographer Sandra Smith traveled to Mata Ort’z to photograph the potters and to record their reflections on their work. Her portraits document their techniquesÑcollecting and preparing the clay, forming by hand, sanding, and painting. They also capture intimate moments between artists and their art. For anyone who has ever admired Casas Grandes pottery, Portraits of Clay is a beautiful introduction to the potters and their work.

Download or read book Pueblo Pottery Making written by Carl Eugen Guthe and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Globalization Issues at the Grassroots written by Ganapathy Palanithurai and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With reference to Tamil Nadu, India.

Download or read book Hands in Clay written by Charlotte F. Speight and published by Mayfield Publishing Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only introductory ceramics text available that combines a thorough appreciation of the aesthetics of ceramic art with extensive discussions of the history of ceramics as well as techniques for working in clay.

Download or read book Maya Potters Indigenous Knowledge written by Dean E. Arnold and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on fieldwork and reflection over a period of almost fifty years, Maya Potters’ Indigenous Knowledge utilizes engagement theory to describe the indigenous knowledge of traditional Maya potters in Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico. In this heavily illustrated narrative account, Dean E. Arnold examines craftspeople’s knowledge and skills, their engagement with their natural and social environments, the raw materials they use for their craft, and their process for making pottery. Following Lambros Malafouris, Tim Ingold, and Colin Renfrew, Arnold argues that potters’ indigenous knowledge is not just in their minds but extends to their engagement with the environment, raw materials, and the pottery-making process itself and is recursively affected by visual and tactile feedback. Pottery is not just an expression of a mental template but also involves the interaction of cognitive categories, embodied muscular patterns, and the engagement of those categories and skills with the production process. Indigenous knowledge is thus a product of the interaction of mind and material, of mental categories and action, and of cognition and sensory engagement—the interaction of both human and material agency. Engagement theory has become an important theoretical approach and “indigenous knowledge” (as cultural heritage) is the focus of much current research in anthropology, archaeology, and cultural resource management. While Dean Arnold’s previous work has been significant in ceramic ethnoarchaeology, Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge goes further, providing new evidence and opening up different concepts and approaches to understanding practical processes. It will be of interest to a wide variety of researchers in Maya studies, material culture, material sciences, ceramic ecology, and ethnoarchaeology.

Download or read book The Development of Pottery Technology from the Late Sixth to the Fifth Millennium B C in Northern Jordan written by Nabil Ali and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is divided into two main parts. Part one presents the ethnoarchaeological study that has been conducted on (late-Sixth to Fifth Millennium BC) pottery production in northern Jordan (the Ajlun Mountain area). It includes the location and environmental setting of the study area, the context of pottery production with reference to potters' socio-economical contexts, and their identity. It also includes the context of pottery production and a description of the technological traditions that have been identified among the potters. Chapters 4 and 5 have been devoted to measuring and explaining the causes of technological similarities as well as differences in the potters' out-put. Part 2 presents the archaeological study. It includes a description of the site of Abu Hamid and its environmental setting. Moreover, it presents the chronology and the sequence of occupation at the site, as well as the spatial and temporal contexts of the sampled pottery sherds. Further, it presents morphological and metric descriptions of the pottery assemblages. Chapters 8 and 9 are devoted to the identification of archaeological pottery forming techniques and the measuring of the technical variations among them. The last chapter presents the explanations of these technical variations.

Download or read book Mastering the Potter s Wheel written by Ben Carter and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2016-06 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A book of advances wheel techniques and inspiration for potters who have basic skills but would like to learn more about throwing large forms, lids, handles, darting, and more"--

Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Portugal written by DK Travel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Portugal is your in-depth guide to this beautiful country. Explore the magnificent Jerónimos Monastery, sample some wine in Porto, and discover the best beaches, scenic routes, markets, and festivals the country has to offer. Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Portugal. + Detailed itineraries and "don't-miss" destination highlights at a glance. + Illustrated cutaway 3-D drawings of important sights. + Floor plans and guided visitor information for major museums. + Guided walking tours, local drink and dining specialties to try, things to do, and places to eat, drink, and shop by area. + Area maps marked with sights. + Detailed city maps include street finder indexes for easy navigation. + Insights into history and culture to help you understand the stories behind the sights. + Hotel and restaurant listings highlight DK Choice special recommendations. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Portugal truly shows you this country as no one else can.